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The fact that it’s nearly flavourless is really an advantage when it comes to using it as colourant and gelling agent. It’s awesome that the colour survived the heat as well.
Awesome video and thank you for making this! We feed our worms the dragon fruit rinds. People also eat the new growth too, like nopales. Let me know if you want to try cooking the branches, I’d be happy to send you some. Also, we only spray the fruit with Dr. Bronner’s Pure Castile Soap and water or a foliar spray of Norwegian Sea kelp.
My mom used to grow a lot in her back yard and we didn't use the skins except for compost. But when she got tired of the flesh she would mandolin it and dehydrate it into dragon fruit chips. It was usually half crisp half chewy but the concentrated flavor and sweetness was always delicious. The purple ones were of the peppery variety and the white sweet and tart. Sad they sold the farm some years back 😢
I would imagine a lot of cactus fruit have a tough inedible skin to help retain the moisture inside the fruit until it’s ready to be eaten. Some cactus fruits actually split open after they’re ripe, so their seedy pulp can be eaten by animals. Some cactus fruits are covered in spines and glochids. Stenocereus fruits are absolutely delicious on the inside but the skin of the fruit is covered in toothpick-like spines.
Thank you for an interesting review. I farm with dragon fruit in South Africa and have always been interested to hear the many different ways the plant and fruit can be utilized. I have another interesting use for the peels/rind/skin you and your readers may find as interesting as the chili segment. Hair conditioner!! Simply blend the skins up to a pulp and apply to the hair. Leave for a few minutes and rinse. It is not soapy - but it definetly leaves a silky-smooth feel to the hair. It may be interesting if it were used on blond hair. Not sure if it would colour it pink. 😀 If you do another review with the fruit one day - it contains emulsifiers and therefore makes an excellent 'mayonaise'.
If it's grown commercially in the US it uses pesticides. Even if it is organic (then it just uses "natural" pesticides from 30 years ago). It simply isn't possible to grow food on the scale we need to feed the amount of people we feed without pesticides.
Well, that was the funniest thing I've ever seen you do. The Jelly Taste test was awesome! Thanks for continuing to do your weird way of fruit tasting. I really enjoy watching your videos.
My first thought when you started cutting them up was making pickles. Not sure if that works. Maybe if you don't use sugar in the brine as they're sweet enough as it is. Works with watermelon rinds so doesn't seem too far fetched.
Exactly my thoughts. This could be a new series on "Will It Pickle?" Okra makes lovely pickles and there's no slime. Maybe a quick pickle, avoiding cooking the rinds to reduce the slime factor.
@@ysf-psfx: Don't knock it til you try it. I've done a brine ferment, and it's rather good, just like Bubbies Pickles. I have yet to do a vinegar pickled rind, though.
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Both Masochistic Jelly and The Masochistic Jelly Experiment sound like great names for a Hardcore Psychedelic Garage Rock band. So, @beliarioc9472, I guess you're their first fan. You can go all hipster about that.
You know what, that color is amazing! Don't get me wrong, I don't even know what dragonfruit tastes like, but this episode definitely convinced me on it! Who would've thought... the least edible part was the most interesting.
Ooo! You gotta try some! So mild and delicious! If you're sick and tired of havingevery molecule being doubly sweeter than necessary--This is Refreshing and tasty--without gagging you with sweetness!
A thought, how about making some pickled dragon fruit rind, as it did have a cucumber taste, to add to a salad. Or, candied dragon fruit skin for a snacky snack? The jelly, although monumentally HOT, looked like the best use, but perhaps with a less volcanic pepper in the base. Loved the video, great stuff!
I Absolutly Love Dragon fruit since I was a kid loved eating it when my mom or whoever went grocery Shopping it would be a nice little treat for us all when we gotten one, I love your videos on the Fruit and all kinds of Fruit.
The thing about chilies, is that the seeds and white pith add no flavor, only heat! Removing the seeds and pith makes them a bit milder, and I have found it also brings out more of the flavor.
Actually, the seeds themselves add nothing. They have no heat. It's just the pith surrounding the seeds that have the heat. The seeds are just annoying, and you can't really remove the pith without also removing the seeds.
Bahaha, golly, I can't imagine that ghost pepper being hot! It doesn't look like it would burn your tastebuds off at all! The gel on that jelly was neat to see, I didn't expect it to go from loose gel to firm jelly.
I think you need to shred it into really fine shreds and dehydrate it to get more surface area and undilute it to extract to most flavour and boiling it instead of just steeping it like normal tea.
Gonna hafta be a hard pass on the stir fry for me. If anyone was ever going to show me just what could be done with these things, it was definitely going to be you! Thanks for sharing!
l've tasted the ripe fruits of both my Thanksgiving cactus & Christmas cactus once out of curiosity. They are pretty tasty. Kinda puny though. Like Haskap berry sized & bright pink.
When you make something into a tea, you have to dry it out before you infuse it in the water. It's what gets the stuff out of the fruit and into the water.
*Weird Explorer* - use dragonfruit when making jam! Since it has so much natural pectin it's perfect for it! Of course while you making jam with other fruits or berries or whatnot. In Norden we often use lingonberries when making differenr jams for the sake lingonberries are very high in pectin!
I've seen powdered dragon fruit used as a coloring agent in I think a mayonnaise based sauce of all things. It's rather amazing how concentrated the color is, tho idr if it was added before or after cooking 😅
I immediately think of a nice, cold punch whenever I see dragon fruit. Speaking of punches... you said that the banana peel spice makes anything better. Could you test that hypothesis using some stir-fried noni?
hmm... mild in flavor, high in slime... well, you've already proven jams and jellies. I'm thinking treat it as an okra equivalent. a thickener (and reddener) for stews. things like that.
Oh, listening to you go all hoarse after trying the jelly was something else. Perhaps the jelly would be nice to protein-rich and earthy things like seitan or mushrooms. In the German and even more so the Belgian culinary tradition, it is quite common to eat tart and sweet jams with meaty dishes like venison or, for the vegans among us, mushrooms.
A few years ago my wife and I went on vacation to Panama. While there i tried a spinach salad. It looked like spinach but one little leaf filled my mouth with slime. Have you ever experienced this and do you know what it is? Maybe it would be a topic for a video
Good on you for keeping talking after eating that jelly. Nice to know they are a good source of pectin. I'll keep that in mind for future jam making and that colour is gorgeous!
Should have tried maybe to cook the dragon fruit peels on a grill like you would do with cactus to burn away all the... fruit mucus... stuff that makes it unpalatable. I remember the first time I tried to cook with cactus I didn't know it was so snotty and so I cooked it the wrong way and oh man it was gross, but once I learned to do it the right way you can drain all them boogers right out of it leaving you with a delightful little treat.
What was the name of the spice mix you used before? The peels seem like they would be a good substitution for okra and for food coloring! I don't know why but I was really surprised by the intensity of the color!
It's good to know, if you are trapped on an island with a dragon fruit plant, you can eat the skins. Once again, you do things with ghost chillis I would never think of. I don't mind the heat in my mouth, but it's the slow burn through my GI tract I don't like.
I imagine ot might have similar health benefits as beets (supposedly have; I hate geosmin/dirt flavor and rarely eat them though they like my upper Midwest climate) due to all the betalain pigments. Do they turn your stools &/or urine red as beets can?
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dragon fruit skins could be boiled with sugar, to make candy. 🍬 The same is done with melon rinds, to make gummies.
The fact that it’s nearly flavourless is really an advantage when it comes to using it as colourant and gelling agent. It’s awesome that the colour survived the heat as well.
Wasn't expecting to see my peppers in this episode! Thanks Jared! 🤠
They will be making more appearances in future videos. Having a big box of peppers in the fridge has given me a lot of inspiration 🌶
Awesome video and thank you for making this! We feed our worms the dragon fruit rinds. People also eat the new growth too, like nopales. Let me know if you want to try cooking the branches, I’d be happy to send you some. Also, we only spray the fruit with Dr. Bronner’s Pure Castile Soap and water or a foliar spray of Norwegian Sea kelp.
Of course! It was a lot of fun.
Sure, I'd be down to try the branches next season.
My mom used to grow a lot in her back yard and we didn't use the skins except for compost.
But when she got tired of the flesh she would mandolin it and dehydrate it into dragon fruit chips. It was usually half crisp half chewy but the concentrated flavor and sweetness was always delicious. The purple ones were of the peppery variety and the white sweet and tart. Sad they sold the farm some years back 😢
What part of the world?
@@lynemac2539 South Texas
Sounds like somewhat less flavorful nopales. Maybe grilled, pickled, and/or battered and deep fried?
That's what I was thinking.
I'd like to try them candied like you do with lemon peel.
People eat the young dragon fruit branches, similar to Nopales.
Oooo! Brilliant!
I would call it "Dragon's Breath" jam.
I would imagine a lot of cactus fruit have a tough inedible skin to help retain the moisture inside the fruit until it’s ready to be eaten. Some cactus fruits actually split open after they’re ripe, so their seedy pulp can be eaten by animals. Some cactus fruits are covered in spines and glochids. Stenocereus fruits are absolutely delicious on the inside but the skin of the fruit is covered in toothpick-like spines.
9:40 - you're getting really good at editing, I always love watching your videos, but just wanted to say good job :)
Thanks!
Thank you for an interesting review. I farm with dragon fruit in South Africa and have always been interested to hear the many different ways the plant and fruit can be utilized.
I have another interesting use for the peels/rind/skin you and your readers may find as interesting as the chili segment.
Hair conditioner!! Simply blend the skins up to a pulp and apply to the hair. Leave for a few minutes and rinse. It is not soapy - but it definetly leaves a silky-smooth feel to the hair.
It may be interesting if it were used on blond hair. Not sure if it would colour it pink. 😀
If you do another review with the fruit one day - it contains emulsifiers and therefore makes an excellent 'mayonaise'.
Interesting! I'll have to try this
If it's grown commercially in the US it uses pesticides. Even if it is organic (then it just uses "natural" pesticides from 30 years ago). It simply isn't possible to grow food on the scale we need to feed the amount of people we feed without pesticides.
That jelled surprisingly well! I’m definitely making pepper jelly with the peels next time I get dragon fruit.
Just clean them real well if they are from the store :)
Thanks for the reminder!
Especially if they aren’t organic, pesticides are a legit concern.
Well, that was the funniest thing I've ever seen you do. The Jelly Taste test was awesome!
Thanks for continuing to do your weird way of fruit tasting. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those gelling properties are actually really interesting. Not many fruits can provide that much pectin!
My first thought when you started cutting them up was making pickles. Not sure if that works. Maybe if you don't use sugar in the brine as they're sweet enough as it is. Works with watermelon rinds so doesn't seem too far fetched.
good idea!
Exactly my thoughts. This could be a new series on "Will It Pickle?" Okra makes lovely pickles and there's no slime. Maybe a quick pickle, avoiding cooking the rinds to reduce the slime factor.
Pickled watermelon rinds? I come from the land of fresh watermelon and I could never imagine such a thing.
@@ysf-psfx: Don't knock it til you try it. I've done a brine ferment, and it's rather good, just like Bubbies Pickles. I have yet to do a vinegar pickled rind, though.
@@sdfkjgh🧐, have to check it out, then
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I appreciate the masochistic jelly experiment.
its painful but legitimately tasty 😅
Both Masochistic Jelly and The Masochistic Jelly Experiment sound like great names for a Hardcore Psychedelic Garage Rock band.
So, @beliarioc9472, I guess you're their first fan. You can go all hipster about that.
You know what, that color is amazing! Don't get me wrong, I don't even know what dragonfruit tastes like, but this episode definitely convinced me on it! Who would've thought... the least edible part was the most interesting.
Ooo! You gotta try some! So mild and delicious! If you're sick and tired of havingevery molecule being doubly sweeter than necessary--This is Refreshing and tasty--without gagging you with sweetness!
@@honeybadgerisme I need to get my hands on one first 😆
A thought, how about making some pickled dragon fruit rind, as it did have a cucumber taste, to add to a salad. Or, candied dragon fruit skin for a snacky snack? The jelly, although monumentally HOT, looked like the best use, but perhaps with a less volcanic pepper in the base. Loved the video, great stuff!
I wonder if you treat it like okra maybe add it to a chilli or use it in a curry or gumbo.
And you probably can't go wrong with deep frying it
@zprince4120: Well, they're both highly mucilaginous, so...
These videos are actually filmed really really expertly and I very much enjoy the editing ( content is very fun of course ! )
Thank you so much!
As a new jam maker, this knowledge of the rind's usefulness is very cool.
I Absolutly Love Dragon fruit since I was a kid loved eating it when my mom or whoever went grocery Shopping it would be a nice little treat for us all when we gotten one, I love your videos on the Fruit and all kinds of Fruit.
The thing about chilies, is that the seeds and white pith add no flavor, only heat! Removing the seeds and pith makes them a bit milder, and I have found it also brings out more of the flavor.
Actually, the seeds themselves add nothing. They have no heat. It's just the pith surrounding the seeds that have the heat. The seeds are just annoying, and you can't really remove the pith without also removing the seeds.
Bahaha, golly, I can't imagine that ghost pepper being hot! It doesn't look like it would burn your tastebuds off at all! The gel on that jelly was neat to see, I didn't expect it to go from loose gel to firm jelly.
I think you need to shred it into really fine shreds and dehydrate it to get more surface area and undilute it to extract to most flavour and boiling it instead of just steeping it like normal tea.
Dragon fruit is fantastic! I'm glad there are so many kinds!
Gonna hafta be a hard pass on the stir fry for me. If anyone was ever going to show me just what could be done with these things, it was definitely going to be you! Thanks for sharing!
l've tasted the ripe fruits of both my Thanksgiving cactus & Christmas cactus once out of curiosity. They are pretty tasty. Kinda puny though. Like Haskap berry sized & bright pink.
When you make something into a tea, you have to dry it out before you infuse it in the water. It's what gets the stuff out of the fruit and into the water.
very interesting for the Jelly! NICE to know! and you're crazy for the hot pepper! it was funny! 🤣
*Weird Explorer* - use dragonfruit when making jam! Since it has so much natural pectin it's perfect for it! Of course while you making jam with other fruits or berries or whatnot.
In Norden we often use lingonberries when making differenr jams for the sake lingonberries are very high in pectin!
I've seen powdered dragon fruit used as a coloring agent in I think a mayonnaise based sauce of all things. It's rather amazing how concentrated the color is, tho idr if it was added before or after cooking 😅
I got worried when you used the whole pepper, that stuff is hot.
Oooh i love agar-agar, refreshing dessert. Would love to try dragon skin agar agar :)
Beautiful fruits and delicious! Superfood. Dragon fruit peel tempura hahaha. Great video 🤙🔥🐉
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that jelly looked great. minus crazy pepper.
I loved this video. Eat the Whole Damn Thing is fabulous! I do kinda miss Will It Ketchup tho.
It will return some time next year. I'm a bit overwhelmed with footage after the last trip so I'm getting caught up :)
@@WeirdExplorer awesome, I will be there
That Residents shirt is awesome! 👁️
Will it ketchup?
I'm excited for you to eat more of the spicy peppers
So spices really do bring the flavors out in food!
I immediately think of a nice, cold punch whenever I see dragon fruit. Speaking of punches... you said that the banana peel spice makes anything better. Could you test that hypothesis using some stir-fried noni?
Maybe Pickle them like Watermelon Rind
When you got to the jelly I was thinking eat it eat it watch the look on his face.so funny.😇
I was wondering if the dragon fruit rind would make a good replacement for orange peels in orange peel candy.. or candied orange peels.
the jelly was crazy good. to think it was made without agar agar or anything is crazy
hmm... mild in flavor, high in slime...
well, you've already proven jams and jellies.
I'm thinking treat it as an okra equivalent. a thickener (and reddener) for stews. things like that.
Oh man... I really want to try that stir fry even if it doesn't taste good. I think it would be tasty with some spicy noodles.
"Even if it doesn't taste good, I think it would be tasty."
OK then.
@@ysf-psfx What I meant was that even if it tastes bad with nothing else added, it would be good with the noodles.
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The proportions in that chili jelly were so hilariously obviously off :D
It is very rare for you to just straight up say you don't like something. I take that as a very stern warning indeed.
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Your chili jam will make Jamie Oliver proud
dragon fruit rind pickles sound good
The peruvian apple cactus has a edible skin that taste really good
That "slime" type of texture might be popular in Japan.
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You can use them to dye yarn
Oh, listening to you go all hoarse after trying the jelly was something else.
Perhaps the jelly would be nice to protein-rich and earthy things like seitan or mushrooms. In the German and even more so the Belgian culinary tradition, it is quite common to eat tart and sweet jams with meaty dishes like venison or, for the vegans among us, mushrooms.
Reminds me of prickly pear jelly.
A few years ago my wife and I went on vacation to Panama. While there i tried a spinach salad. It looked like spinach but one little leaf filled my mouth with slime. Have you ever experienced this and do you know what it is? Maybe it would be a topic for a video
Good on you for keeping talking after eating that jelly. Nice to know they are a good source of pectin. I'll keep that in mind for future jam making and that colour is gorgeous!
The slime could be counteracted with something like rice or quinoa
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Surprisingly firm... that's what she said😂
nice
Would butter or clotted cream have mitigated the pain from the jelly when consuming it on a piece of bread?
sure! any milk product is a big help
i feel like they would slap if you pickled them
Maybe you could add it to soup to thicken it like gumbo.
Morning (it’s 6 🥱)
good morning!
Should have tried maybe to cook the dragon fruit peels on a grill like you would do with cactus to burn away all the... fruit mucus... stuff that makes it unpalatable. I remember the first time I tried to cook with cactus I didn't know it was so snotty and so I cooked it the wrong way and oh man it was gross, but once I learned to do it the right way you can drain all them boogers right out of it leaving you with a delightful little treat.
Now that’s a hot take…🌶️🌶️🌶️
Could be fine for ice cream, sorbet or a kind of custard or a pie filling.
That is supercool.
My first instinct for using these...pickles...much like pickled watermelon rind.
What was the name of the spice mix you used before?
The peels seem like they would be a good substitution for okra and for food coloring! I don't know why but I was really surprised by the intensity of the color!
Check the banana peel video it's a bunch of things not a prepared mix
It's good to know, if you are trapped on an island with a dragon fruit plant, you can eat the skins. Once again, you do things with ghost chillis I would never think of. I don't mind the heat in my mouth, but it's the slow burn through my GI tract I don't like.
I feel like if you stir fried that with squash it would work due to the slimier texture of squash
I like your videos where you make all those different ketchup maybe you should try making ketchup out of the dragon fruit peel with a hot pepper
The slimy element makes me wonder if it could be used in place of okra for gumbo
Im do blend soup with it....😊
How are they raw?
😂😂😂 good family fun
I imagine ot might have similar health benefits as beets (supposedly have; I hate geosmin/dirt flavor and rarely eat them though they like my upper Midwest climate) due to all the betalain pigments. Do they turn your stools &/or urine red as beets can?
Would you review noni stir-fry?
nope!
I feel like it would good in a soup.
Maybe find a crispy pickle recipe and try that. See if they will crisp up some what🤷♀️maybe not though if they are not crispy to begin with
I sense a hot pepper video coming soon...
mayyybeeee 🌶
maybe shoulda dried the skins for the tea
Try making dragonfruit ketchup
How does that slimeness compare to okra/ladies-fingers?
Can we make some strange pseudo-gumbo with dragonfruit rinds?
hm... maybe! It does thicken up, so it might work. It just wouldn't be as nice when you get a piece in your spoon.
I'm not sure how you could prevent the sliminess. What do people do to make okra not slimy?
Acids help. Pickled okra is pretty good.
If you lack okra then you could maybe use dragon fruit peel as a substitute maybe?
Dude, need to figure out how to get a nara fruit from Namibia. If anyone is reading this look it up!
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Now do the peppers 😁
I love slime food